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Storage is suited for it though. Most data, and especially photos, stops being accessed after some time and could stop consume bandwidth and electricity given p
by zzzcpan 6y ago
Storage is suited for it though. Most data, and especially photos, stops being accessed after some time and could stop consume bandwidth and electricity given properly designed infrastructure. Not that there is even a need to keep it forever, removing data not accessed in say five years or a decade is likely to still meet realistic durability guarantees any organization could provide, if it ever comes to that, which might be the case once they run out of physical space. Because of that such service can be offered as a "forever" service as long as the rate of new payments is enough for running it. But this is also where it gets tricky, the price they are shooting for right now is crazy unrealistic, it's at least an order of magnitude higher than competitive range, so they won't have many customers who can multiply and won't be able to attract enough customers to sustain it.
- pjc50 6y ago> removing data not accessed in say five years or a decade is likely to still meet realistic durability guarantees any organization could provide This is exactly the sort of policy that a "permanent" storage facility must promise never to enact. The whole point of something like this is for stuff you don't need regularly but want to keep forever. Every year or so I log into the dropbox account that has a copy of my wedding photos in. I don't need to look at them, but I want to keep them.